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Originally Posted by Stanley
Amidst all this fire GG stuff, I was thinking...
...what if our roster is simply not good enough regardless of coaches? What if our expectations are too high?
I know we have some great pieces in Mony/Johnny/Chuck/Backs/Janko/Gio/Hamilton, and to some extent still potential with Bennett, but outside of that...it's really not impressive at all. We have a terrible bottom 6 and questionable D outside of Gio/Dougie/Hamonic.
Maybe we're just not that good, period. I mean look at the lineup we're icing with our top forwards out...it's pretty ugly even on paper, let alone on the ice.
Blame GG where it's due, I get that, but does he really have the right players to get 'er done?
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It's a fair question. I would counter and say how many close games did this team lose in December and January where in the post game we commented "the powerplay was the difference"? I think it was a lot and while players deserve blame for missing nets and overpassing there's not much dispute that the powerplay has not been well run whether it be the scheme or personnel. It's pretty clear this roster has holes but there are few if any perfect rosters in this league.
I like Glen Gulutzan the person so I've been trying hard not to demonize the guy for doing what he thought was best for this team but his vision of how things should be done simply hasn't translated on the ice. While I've never been a fan of the hire I've always tried to remain open minded as my post following last season indicates;
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Next season will be his fourth season as NHL head coach so he's far removed from being considered a rookie NHL head coach. I expect he will draw from his experience this season but I wouldn't expect him to deviate from rolling four lines as that's a philosophy. He rightly will be the head coach next season but the bar will be raised as he's going to have to make the playoffs and the team will have to play a lot more disciplined and fare better in the playoffs.
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Unfortunately he didn't really seem to learn a lot from his first season with this team as he was steadfast in his square peg in round hole approach and with the bar raised the team actually regressed so there's no doubt in my mind he and his staff has to go regardless of how good you think this roster is.